68 Words or Less — Orlando Magic

Illusions and Trickery

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The Magic face a long road out of the bottom of the barrel. According to a front-office source, the team’s comeback plan is largely built on trickery: mid-play card tricks, pulling long rainbow scarves out of their mouths, making the ball vanish and then reappear behind a defender’s head, pulling a coin out of someone’s ear when he’s trying to post up, that sort of thing.

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